Archive for December, 2008

OpenSUSE now a little more Open

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

Due out this Thursday is the latest offering from the OpenSUSE project. OpenSUSE 11.1 releases with some minor tweaks to the license agreement and removes some of the proprietary software that was originally bundled with it such as Acrobat and Java. Not surprising given Novell and Microsoft’s relationship. The modifications ...

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PC Celebrates the big 40

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Today marks the birthday of a revolution.  40 years ago today Douglas Engelbart of the Stanford Research Institute unveiled a primitive device with a mouse and interactive screen in a legendary demonstration to an audience of about 1000.  The device allowed the user to edit text and add graphics on ...

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